With no objections, and everything folk mentioned above in, the cassandra-5.0 branch is cut.
Next steps are bumping trunk to 5.1 and then cutting a 5.0-alpha1 The bumping to 5.1 has a few steps involved in it, but the initial in-tree PRs are ready for review, with CI being run, see CASSANDRA-18705 On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 at 00:00, Brandon Williams <dri...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 to everything stated here. > > Kind Regards, > Brandon > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 5:28 PM Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > The previous thread¹ on when to freeze 5.0 landed on freezing the first > week of August, with a waiver in place for TCM and Accord to land later > (but before October). > > > > With JDK8 now dropped and SAI and UCS merged, the only expected 5.0 work > that hasn't landed is Vector search (CEP-30). > > > > Are there any objections to a waiver on Vector search? All the > groundwork: SAI and the vector type; has been merged, with all remaining > work expected to land in August. > > > > I'm keen to freeze and see us shift gears – there's already SO MUCH in > 5.0 and a long list of flakies. It takes time and patience to triage and > identify the bugs that hit us before GA. The freeze is about being "mostly > feature complete", so we have room for things before our first beta > (precedence is to ask). If we hope for a GA by December, account for the > 6 weeks turnaround time for cutting and voting on one alpha, one beta, and > one rc release, and the quiet period that August is, we really only have > September and October left. > > > > I already feel this is asking a bit of a miracle from us given how 4.1 > went (and I'm hoping I will be proven wrong). > > > > In addition, are there any objections to cutting an 5.0-alpha1 release > as soon as we freeze? > > > > This is on the understanding vector, tcm and accord will become > available in later alphas. Originally the discussion¹ was waiting for > Accord for alpha1, but a number of folk off-list have requested earlier > alphas to help with testing. > > > > > > ¹) https://lists.apache.org/thread/9c5cnn57c7oqw8wzo3zs0dkrm4f17lm3 >
